Jimmy Yuill

Known for ActingBorn 1956-01-01 (age 70)Golspie, Scotland

Jimmy Yuill is an actor, born in 1959, in Golspie, Scotland. He is a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company and later joined the Renaissance Theatre Company. He has appeared in many of Kenneth Branagh's films. His most recent work saw him play the Chief Constable in "The Raven" along side John Cusack. Yuill was also the music composer for A Midwinter's Tale and Swan Song. Most of his acting work has been in theatre, although he has played police officers on television; he is best remembered for the character Doug Kersey in the British television show Wycliffe. In June 2006 Jimmy made his first appearance in EastEnders as the recurring character Victor Brown. In October 2007, Yuill took the lead in Sophocles' Antigone as Creon, King of Thebes at The Tron Theatre, Glasgow. In 2010, he was nominated for the award of Best Male Performance for his role in a play adaption of the Testament of Cresseid by the Critics Award for Theatre in Scotland.Read more

Movies & web series

Schneider's 2nd Stage

Objects of Affection

Andrina

Young James Herriot

Hamish Macbeth

Shetland

Murphy's Law

Monsignor Renard

Grushko

A Touch of Frost

New Tricks

Going Postal

Psychos

National Theatre Live: Macbeth

In the Bleak Midwinter

The Afternoon Play

Henry V

Screen Two

Rebus

The Road Dance

Much Ado About Nothing

Guilt

Swan Song

The Kindred

Local Hero

Ladies in Lavender

The Magic Flute

The Raven

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

Eurocops

A Sense of Freedom

The Fall of Sir Douglas Weatherford

All Is True

Death Watch

Wycliffe

ScreenPlay

As You Like It

Princess Kaiulani

Discovering Hamlet

Artemis Fowl

Retreat

Paper Mask

Love's Labour's Lost

The Rocket Post

Within the Whirlwind

Strictly Sinatra

Extraordinary Rendition

EastEnders